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Introduction

Conflict of Laws is a staple course at the Catholic University School of Law, and is a subject tested on the Virginia Bar exam. Additionally, Conflict of Laws issues are embedded in other topics on the Multi-state Essay Exam (the MEE is a UBE component), although they do not appear as stand-alone questions.

The term "Conflict of Laws" describes generally the body of law that aspires to provide solutions to international or interstate disputes between persons or entities other than countries or states as such. A dispute is considered international or interstate if one or more of its constituent elements is connected with more than one country or state.

"Conflict of Laws" is the term primarily used in the United States, Canada and England & Wales, while "Private International Law" is the term used in Continental countries.

[Definition from Eugene Scoles et al, Conflict of Laws (4th ed.)]

Essential Texts

Restatement of the Law, Second, Conflict of Laws
by ALI

Publication Date: KF411 .R42 1971

This work addresses the specific problems that arise when a case is connected with more than one jurisdiction. Topics include personal jurisdiction as well as the recognition, effect, and defense of foreign judgments. A 17-year effort, this work entirely supersedes the original Restatement on this subject, published by the Institute in 1934.

Comprehensive and authoritative coverage of all aspects of federal civil, criminal and appellate procedure, including rules of civil, criminal, and appellate procedure, rules of evidence, the federal judicial system, jurisdiction of all federal courts, venue, removal of cases, res judicata, relation of state and federal courts, multidistrict litigation, and more.

Finding Books

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